Tag: Olympics

Fireworks explode over Olympic Park during the closing ceremony for the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Costly, political, successful: Sochi Olympics end

John Leicester · February 23, 2014 7:20 pm

In this Feb. 9, 2014 photo Austria's Johannes Duerr competes during the men's cross-country 30k skiathlon at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. Duerr has been kicked out of the Sochi Games after testing positive for EPO, the country's Olympic committee said Sunday, Feb 23, 2014. It is the fifth doping case of the Olympics and the first involving the blood-boosting drug EPO. (AP Photo/Matthias Schrader)

IOC confident in success of anti-doping program

Graham Dunbar · February 23, 2014 3:13 pm

Team Sweden skates back to the bench as Canada celebrates a goal during the first period of the men's gold medal ice hockey game at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

SOCHI SCENE: Ho-hum gold game?

Washington Examiner · February 23, 2014 1:09 pm

Russia's gold medal winner Alexander Legkov is flanked by Russia's silver medal winner Maxim Vylegzhanin, left and Russia's bronze medal winner Ilia Chernousov during the flower ceremony of the men's 50K cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Russia clinches medals title

Jon Krawczynski · February 23, 2014 9:52 am

Konstantin Ernst, chief creative director of the opening and closing ceremonies for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, wears a T-shirt with the Olympic rings where one of the five rings is a snowflake during a news conference on the last day of the Olympics in Sochi, Russia, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014. The T-shirt is a reference to the opening ceremony, when five snowflakes were supposed to open up into the five Olympic rings, but one failed to open. Ernst was met with applause and laughter when he took off his jumper at the press conference, revealing the T-shirt with the glitch. (AP Photo/Dorothee Thiesing)

SOCHI SCENE: Those rings, redux

Nataliya Vasilyeva · February 23, 2014 9:29 am

Russia's Alexander Legkov, the gold medal winner, is carried on the shoulders of bronze medalist Russia's Ilia Chernousov after the men's 50K cross-country race at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

SOCHI SCENE: Russia clinches medals title

Washington Examiner · February 23, 2014 9:26 am

Women's slalom gold medal winner Mikaela Shiffrin of the United States poses for photographers with the U.S. flag at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia.(AP Photo/Gero Breloer)

SOCHI SCENE: Out of the limelight

Washington Examiner · February 23, 2014 8:36 am

The team from the United States, who won the silver medal in the men's short track speedskating 5,000-meter relay, smile while exiting the stage following their medals ceremony at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Sochi, Russia. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

SOCHI SCENE: Skating party

Washington Examiner · February 23, 2014 8:24 am

Germany's Arnd Peiffer leaves the shooting range during the men's biathlon 4x7.5K relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

SOCHI SCENE: Never enough

Washington Examiner · February 23, 2014 7:57 am

President Obama got some chilling news from a USA Today/Pew poll this week

Washington Secrets

Zogby Report Card: On Ukraine, is Obama making promises he can’t keep — again?

Paul Bedard · February 22, 2014 5:00 am

From left, Ukraine's relay team Vita Semerenko, Juliya Dzhyma, Olena Pidhrushna and Valj Semerenko pose with an Ukraine's flag, after winning the gold medal in the women's biathlon 4x6k relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Friday, Feb. 21, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

Ukraine takes gold, US hockey falls to Canada

David Pace · February 22, 2014 12:42 am

FILE - This Nov. 16, 2013 file photo shows Jimmy Kimmel at the 4th Annual Variety's Power of Comedy Event in Los Angeles. Kimmel said Thursday, Feb. 20, 2014, he cooperated with luger Kate Hansen to post a fake video of a wolf wandering the hall outside the athlete's room in Sochi. Instead, Kimmel's staff rented a wolf and built a set in Los Angeles that was a replica of the dorm and filmed the animal walking around (Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP, File)

Kimmel’s wolf hoax: ABC News knew ahead of time

David Bauder · February 21, 2014 9:18 pm